From Prison to Pastor | Clyde Thomas
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
A life of escalating drugs and crime caused Clyde Thomas to end up in a prison cell, where he started reading a Gideon New Testament. The Jesus he found in those pages totally transformed his life. Now he pastors Victory Church in Cwmbran, and runs Christian rehabilitation houses with his wife Rebekah, helping folks who are just like he was twenty years ago break free of addiction and destructive choices! It’s a beautiful story!
Check out hopecentreministries.co.uk and victorychurch.co.uk
You can contact clyde.thomas[@]victorychurch.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I was literally the walking dead. |
| 0:03.0 | When you're on drugs, you live in this kind of silo. |
| 0:05.0 | You start to believe that that's the only world that exists. |
| 0:08.0 | But it led me then to landing in prison. |
| 0:11.0 | Then he gave me a Gideon's New Testament. |
| 0:14.0 | Above the Psalm, it said, a palm of David. |
| 0:17.0 | That's what I thought at the time, but it meant a Psalm of death. |
| 0:19.0 | And I remember just thinking these words, if he did it for David, then he can do it for me. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Great to be back for another fantastic week of encouragement. |
| 0:33.6 | Listen, if you're new to us, Inspired is all about meeting different mates of mind who've got wonderfully encouraging, moving, challenging, stirring stories to counteract the |
| 0:42.5 | relentless bombardment we get in the press of negativity and fear and just induces cynicism, |
| 0:48.8 | apathy, anxiety, all that sort of stuff. So I think that's why we're just on such a role |
| 0:53.2 | and it's exploding in terms of listenership, which is just wonderful. And this week, I've got no doubt you're going to be mega inspired because we've got with us the legendary Clyde Thomas. Welcome Clyde. Oh, thank you, Simon. It's great to be with you. Yeah, really excited. So Clyde and I were together a few months ago at Billy Graham's European Evangelist Conference in Berlin. We had a great time there and Clyde serves as lead pastor of Victory Church. |
| 1:16.8 | That's been in Wales since 2014. He also, with his wife Rebecca, they run Hope Center Ministries. |
| 1:23.0 | And listen, I don't say anymore because I just want to crack into it, Clyde. |
| 1:27.5 | So let's go back. |
| 1:28.5 | Tell us your backstory. |
| 1:29.5 | Well, my backstory is probably like a lot of your listeners, one of incredible brokenness. |
| 1:36.3 | But at the same time, I had a good start in life. |
| 1:39.6 | And I think one of the most interesting things about my story is just the reminder that even when life starts |
| 1:47.1 | well, things can still go wrong. For anyone listening today where maybe you've taken a wrong course |
| 1:54.5 | or you've taken a wrong direction, I know, and I hope that my story will be a blessing to you, |
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